RE DELTA TAU DELTA ORIGINS OF WWGOWGA:
Thank you Swordmaker! I searched for that one too and came up a dry hole as well.
The only thing I might wonder is if the saying might be among their secret verbiage.... and if that were the case, I wonder if any Delts were involved in making the movie “White Squall” which seems to be the origin of the saying... at least as far as I can trace. Even if it were found to be the case, if the verbiage is secret, there may be no way to verify it, unless a Delt would be willing to step up.....
Someone mentioned that the syntax indicates Elizabethan or some old kind of word order, but still I have not found old precedents for the saying.
Unless Q gives further crumbs and emphasizes importance to ferreting out the origins, I am going to abandon the hole..... but not plug it!
These terms are Latin origin. Try that angle, maybe?
That's what I was thinking, Tex. Knowing something of the mystical ways of fraternities (Theta Chi) I know that they often times have little secret sayings they use to identify each other on the sly. For example, and cause I hate 'em.
Sigma Chi:
Q: How high does the eagle fly?
A: Over the cross of Constantine.
So yea, if this fraternity of which you speak is a traditional one with all the same type of stuff. I would imagine that "Where we go one, we go all" could be one of their traditional sayings. And not something they would publish to non members. Putting is on an ice chest would be considered a slip in security. Haha.
Just my input.
That was me. . . I thought Shakespearean, Marlow, etc.
I am going to abandon the hole..... but not plug it!
Same here.